Posts for the Weekend

This photo was taken last year in D.C., when the cherry blossom festival was in full swing. Here, it’s supposed to get to 50 today.  I can’t wait. [On edit: it was warm, it was sunny, it was delightful.]

I had a strange but vivid dream last night where Hermione Granger – the character from Harry Potter, not the actress who plays her – wanted me to write a blog post about her return to witchcraft after retirement. I had written it all up on my smart phone and everything. I’ve never actually read the Harry Potter books, by the way.

 

Recent Posts on Academic Publishing

There have been a fair number of relatively interesting blog posts on academic scholarly publishing recently, so I thought I’d share some of them with you, in case you missed them.

• John W. Houghton, information research, The costs and potential benefits of alternative scholarly publishing models. HT Law Librarian Blog (natch). From the abstract:
  

Monday kerfluffles

Have to be kind of quick today; must clean the house before work and start getting ready for my trip. So this will just be a down-and-dirty dusting of posts today. I’ve given them a theme of “kerfluffles.”

• From the “Local kerfluffles” division: